FSF and GNU Press Information

This page is a location for press-related information about
the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project. We keep
archival copies of our press releases here, and other information
of interest to those in the media.

Update: The Free Software Foundation and
Finite State Machine Labs Inc. (FSMLabs) have announced the
release of the Open RTLinux
patent license Version 2 fully compliant with the Free
Software Foundation's General Public License (GPL). The Open
Patent License grants the right to use U.S. Patent No.
5,995,745 in GPL free software without payment of a royalty.
This license protects GPL use of the RTLinux process. For more
information, please see the updated press
release.

Additional Information

Background Information

On our philosophy page, we have a
number of texts that describe the political, ethical and
practical viewpoints of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU
project. If you are doing background reading for an article about
the FSF or GNU, we suggesting in particular the following
articles: